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May 7th will be the last day at The Leonardo to explore our most recent travelling exhibit, Alien Worlds & Androids. Before the exhibit moves on, I took the opportunity to leave my office and walk the floor. I stood and admired my favorite model in the exhibit: the...

If they are anything like I was in my school years, students finishing up their Spring Break might have missed a few chances to learn something new during their vacation. But you’d be surprised at how many opportunities a day offers to learn something new — and that includes...

*Note: This essay has been submitted to MuseumHack’s contest for thought leadership: https://museumhack.com/writing-contest/ I work at a Science, Art & Technology museum in Salt Lake City that markets itself mostly to parents and children. Every time the exhibits team convenes to design a new experience for our visitors we...

As The Leonardo continues to host Alien Worlds & Androids we thought we would highlight some of the minds behind robotics and artificial intelligence you might not have known about. I found some inspiration in the exhibit itself, which mentions the captivating Turing test. This thought-experiment was devised in a 1950 paper...

Since The Leonardo has been hosting the travelling exhibit Aliens & Androids the team here has been particularly sensitive to the progress in space travel technology and discoveries in outer space. Just this week, NASA announced the discovery of 7 new exoplanets a mere 40 light-years away (it takes...

Here at the Leo we’re excited to host the Drones and Droids program this weekend, February 18th through the 20th. In considering what to write about this week, I was oddly captivated by the word “drone” itself — me being the kind of person who finds lexical things captivating....

One of the fascinating ideas in our new travelling exhibit Alien Worlds & Androids is that some of the strangest aliens are inside our own bodies, a home to trillions of weird, intricate life forms that we call the human microbiota. The individual life forms are called microbes, which...